The Associated Press | Posted Dec 9th - 8:00am

The Associated Press | Posted Dec 9th - 7:50am

The Dutch government says it is going to open negotiations with U.S. authorities about the possibility of carrying out American border and customs checks at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport to save time for passengers flying to the United States.

Eleven political parties and coalitions in Macedonia are holding final rallies ahead of general elections called to defuse a nearly two-year political crisis sparked by a wiretapping scandal.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos brought no members of the leftist FARC rebel group to Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony because he didn't want to "create a problem" for the Norwegian government, he said Friday.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Friday that the United States will stick with Afghanistan for years to come as a new U.S. president takes over what is already America's longest war.

David Rising, Associated Press | Posted Dec 9th - 6:30am

Hildegard Hamm-Bruecher, the "Grand Dame" of Germany's pro-business Free Democratic Party who made an unsuccessful bid for the country's presidency in 1994, has died, her party said Friday. She was 95.

German authorities have arrested a man suspected of setting off homemade explosive devices outside a mosque and a conference center in Dresden in September, prosecutors said Friday.

Bharatha Mallawarachi, Associated Press | Posted Dec 9th - 5:23am

Sri Lanka's president has revoked a nearly 200-year-old British colonial order, clearing the names of 19 citizens who were branded as traitors for rebelling against British rule, his office said Friday.

The Associated Press | Posted Dec 9th - 5:20am

Kelvin Chan, Associated Press | Posted Dec 9th - 5:00am

Hong Kong's Beijing-backed leader, deeply unpopular because of his hard-line response to massive 2014 pro-democracy protests and an ensuing separatist movement, said Friday he won't seek another term in office, citing family reasons.